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« on: August 17, 2020, 01:34:07 PM »
What does it mean to you when you hear that word?
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2020, 01:45:14 PM »
Muh tax cuts and bootstraps.
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2020, 01:51:15 PM »
"The holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas" pretty much covers any serious, intellectual definition.  Everything from opposing illegal immigration to supporting tax cuts to opposing excessive regulation to supporting "pro-family" policies would be covered.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2020, 01:57:15 PM »
What immediately comes to mind? The CDU and the first George Bush
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2020, 02:15:00 PM »
Quote from: Clarko95 on August 17, 2020, 01:57:15 PM
What immediately comes to mind? The CDU and the first George Bush

So what is Trump? Giuliani?
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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2020, 02:22:45 PM »
White men.
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2020, 02:26:29 PM »
Russell Kirk and some of the thinkers in his book The Conservative Mind.
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2020, 02:28:01 PM »
I used to think of cutting taxes, small government, etc., now I just think of Donald Trump
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2020, 03:25:18 PM »
Jim Marshall, Dan Boren, conservative Democrats.

People like Margaret Thatcher, Edward Seaga (Jamaica), people like Larry Elder.
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2020, 03:34:37 PM »
Edmund Burke
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2020, 03:58:18 PM »
Antigay
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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2020, 04:48:36 PM »
Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Disraeli, John A. MacDonald, and to a lesser extent Edmund Burke.
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« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2020, 05:21:12 PM »
Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher
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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2020, 05:24:59 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2020, 05:36:25 PM »
Quote from: Don Vito Corleone on August 17, 2020, 04:48:36 PM
Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Disraeli, John A. MacDonald, and to a lesser extent Edmund Burke.
Awfully kind view of conservatism.
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« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2020, 08:23:12 PM »
I think of socio-political ideology trying to fight the beating drum of incremental progress (liberalism). The conservative defends the undefendable which will eventually change due to circumstances.  I won't really blame people for appreciating conservatism though (albeit not favorably). Some people have a pretty difficult time dealing with social progress.

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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2020, 08:28:08 PM »
Quote from: Атлас-Russian Interference edition on August 17, 2020, 08:23:12 PM
I think of socio-political ideology trying to fight the beating drum of incremental progress (liberalism). The conservative defends the undefendable which will eventually change due to circumstances.  I won't really blame people for appreciating conservatism though (albeit not favorably). Some people have a pretty difficult time dealing with social progress.
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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2020, 08:35:11 PM »
« Edited: August 17, 2020, 08:38:27 PM by Атлас-Russian Interference edition »
Quote from: #neverkamala on August 17, 2020, 08:28:08 PM
Quote from: Атлас-Russian Interference edition on August 17, 2020, 08:23:12 PM
I think of socio-political ideology trying to fight the beating drum of incremental progress (liberalism). The conservative defends the undefendable which will eventually change due to circumstances.  I won't really blame people for appreciating conservatism though (albeit not favorably). Some people have a pretty difficult time dealing with social progress.
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*sigh* Conservatism was an idea by Edmund Burke to make people imagine a modern industrial feudalism. Conservatism is an idea that we should defend the present moment and suffer in it instead. Change is futile. Suffer in the moment.
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« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2020, 09:05:17 PM »
Rather than ramble, as I intended to, I will simply sum it up with a quote:

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"To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss"- Michael Oakeshott
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« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2020, 09:59:06 PM »
Quote from: Atlanta 1997 World Champs on August 17, 2020, 02:15:00 PM
Quote from: Clarko95 on August 17, 2020, 01:57:15 PM
What immediately comes to mind? The CDU and the first George Bush

So what is Trump? Giuliani?
Indeed, Trump has secretly been Rudy Giuliani this whole time.
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« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2020, 11:55:24 PM »
Quote from: Атлас-Russian Interference edition on August 17, 2020, 08:35:11 PM
Quote from: #neverkamala on August 17, 2020, 08:28:08 PM
Quote from: Атлас-Russian Interference edition on August 17, 2020, 08:23:12 PM
I think of socio-political ideology trying to fight the beating drum of incremental progress (liberalism). The conservative defends the undefendable which will eventually change due to circumstances.  I won't really blame people for appreciating conservatism though (albeit not favorably). Some people have a pretty difficult time dealing with social progress.
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*sigh* Conservatism was an idea by Edmund Burke to make people imagine a modern industrial feudalism. Conservatism is an idea that we should defend the present moment and suffer in it instead. Change is futile. Suffer in the moment.

I'm not sure what you mean by "modern industrial feudalism" but it doesn't sound like the kind of thing Burke was really into?
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2020, 12:40:47 AM »
Racism. Sexism. Classism. Transphobia. Homophobia. Xenophobia.
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2020, 12:55:14 AM »
In terms of contemporary American politics, an ideology designed to favor white men over just about all other demographic groups.
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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2020, 01:06:37 AM »
A country club in Orange County circa 1985.
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2020, 04:50:39 AM »
Angela Merkel
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